Tuesday, December 28, 2010

1. On Saturday, for Christmas, we went and saw True Grit. You ought to go see it.

2. On Sunday, when it started snowing, we went and saw The Fighter.* I was expecting a regular (kind of boring) sports movie, featuring Marky Mark's abs. It was way better than that. I either didn't know or had forgotten that it was going to go hand-in-hand with this documentary that I just watched about the crack cocaine. If you've got an hour, you should watch High on Crack Street first, and then maybe hit the Riverview and see the movie. It is still a sports movie, but the training sequences (etc) are kept at a minimum. It's a little long.

3. Yesterday (snowday) I went and saw Jolie and Depp play at espionage in the Tourist. Twists! Jewelry! Mobsters! Outfits! Boats! Guns! You get it.

*the smartest thing I did Sunday was leave my truck at the Riverview, dead center under the 95. I'm staying in South Philly, so the next day I just walked over there (saw another movie) and got my truck. No shoveling, no defrosting.
The dumbest thing I did that day was lose my wallet, I guess under the snow. Bummer, but not the end of the world.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Mike Snow. I think about this name a lot, and am finally putting it together*.

I guess I first noted the whole thing, because "Mike Snow" is just a good, solid, regular-but-notable and nice name. Then, just today, I realized that1. "Mike Snow" does that "Animal" song, that someone or someones put on a mix for me at some point. And, AND2. "Mike Snow" does the music on the X-Files, which I am slowly but surely working my way through, and think about/talk about too much.

COULD IT BE THE SAME PERSON? Performing songs about shapeshifting AND writing background music to a show that often features shapeshifting? I spent about one minute on Google trying to find out, and mostly kept landing on some Swedish pop group called Miike Snow, which seems like a dead end. Bored with researching, would be nice if someone could just tell me the answers.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Last night was too cold for Black Swan*, so I started working on a tipi for Matt.

It's a little small, so maybe it's really for the Babycat - but just so you know, that's a window. Not the door. Also: triangle math is pretty hard. Anyway, will work on this a little more before you see it again. Need to get some supplies. Wait til you see the transformation. It'll be like watching HGTV.

*BUT I have seen some other movies lately, and am kind of working on reviews for them. In my mind.

Yesterday, I finally cut ties with New York State. Like a grown up, I got my own auto insurance. Got a title transfer, got registered, got inspected. And I have to send back my NYS plates. So now I only have one (back) plate on my truck, and the front is all empty.

Accepting ideas (or Christmas gifts?) of a good front plate. I do think unicorns scene is a little played out, so maybe we can come up with something that is non-ironically awesome? Just regular awesome?